Chronicle vs Explanation - What's the difference?
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A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
To record in or as in a chronicle.
The act or process of explaining.
Something that explains, makes understandable.
(euphemistic) An excuse, apologetic justification not based on enough evidence.
Chronicle is a related term of explanation.
As nouns the difference between chronicle and explanation
is that chronicle is a written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time while explanation is the act or process of explaining.As a verb chronicle
is to record in or as in a chronicle.chronicle
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Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Often used in the title of a newspaper, as in Pennsylvania Chronicle .Synonyms
* (account of events and when they happened) annals, archives, chronicon, diary, history, journal, narration, prehistory, recital, record, recountal, register, report, story, versionVerb
Synonyms
* (record in a chronicle) recordexplanation
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(wikipedia explanation)Noun
(en noun)- The explanation was long and drawn-out.
- An explanation for each UFO sighting was easily found.
- expense.